The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 4

Track Listings

1. Allegro
2. Menuetto
3. Andante grazioso
4. Adagio—Allegro
5. Allegro spirituoso
6. Andante
7. Menuetto—Contradanse en Rondeau
8. Allegro
9. Tema con 6 Variazioni
10. Menuetto
11. Adagio
12. Menuetto
13. Andante-Allegro

Editorial Reviews
Twin Cities Reader, 1974
"The performances by the New York Philomusica are immaculate and, more to the point, loving."

Album Description
This fourth of six CDs containing the complete set of Mozart Divertimentos, the only recording ever made of this repertoire, contains Divertimentos Nos. 3, 8, and 15. The program features the glorious sound of ten woodwinds in E-flat, then six woodwinds up to F, ending with the great B-flat showcase for strings and two horns. This last had a major influence on Beethoven, who used the idea of Finale as intro in his great 9th Symphony. The ensemble is led by violinist Isidore Cohen; liner notes by famed scholar and pianist Robert Levin. Also available as part of a six-CD boxed set containing the entire Divertimento collection.

In the second ten-wind divertimento, K.166/159d, Mozart employs a more balanced scoring. The more spacious slow movement is rounded off by a twice-stated coda, as is the minuet.

K. 213 is a direct, unpretentious work. Bright in sonority, its energetic first movement reiterates two quick upbeat figures. The tiny slow movement is but 8 bars in length, certainly one of Mozart’s shortest. The horns dominate the trio with one of the highest solos in the entire oeuvre. The divertimento concludes with another dance, in which the simple duple-meter theme alternates with several brief couplets.

The richness of instrumental color in the Divertimento No. 15 is accentuated by the diversity of character in its six movements: witness the contrast between the vigor of the first allegro and the sublime adagio, in which the occasional music is elevated to highest art.

Describing his performance of the first violin part of K. 287/271H on October 4, 1777, Mozart wrote, "I played as if I were the greatest violinist in Europe." In his twenty-second year, both the composition and the performance seem singular achievements. © 2002 Robert Levin

The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 4, Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, New York Philomusica, Chamber, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Period Serenade/Cassation/Divertimento, Orchestral, Sextet for Six Woodwind Instruments, Woodwind Chamber Music

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The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 4 Mozart Manufacturer: NY Philomusica Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 3 The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 5 The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 6 ASIN: B000071XR4 Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. Allegro
2. Menuetto
3. Andante grazioso
4. AdagioAllegro
5. Allegro spirituoso
6. Andante
7. MenuettoContradanse en Rondeau
8. Allegro
9. Tema con 6 Variazioni
10. Menuetto
11. Adagio
12. Menuetto
13. Andante-Allegro

Album Description

In the second ten-wind divertimento, K.166/159d, Mozart employs a more balanced scoring. The more spacious slow movement is rounded off by a twice-stated coda, as is the minuet.

K. 213 is a direct, unpretentious work. Bright in sonority, its energetic first movement reiterates two quick upbeat figures. The tiny slow movement is but 8 bars in length, certainly one of Mozart's shortest. The horns dominate the trio with one of the highest solos in the entire oeuvre. The divertimento concludes with another dance, in which the simple duple-meter theme alternates with several brief couplets.

The richness of instrumental color in the Divertimento No. 15 is accentuated by the diversity of character in its six movements: witness the contrast between the vigor of the first allegro and the sublime adagio, in which the occasional music is elevated to highest art.

Describing his performance of the first violin part of K. 287/271H on October 4, 1777, Mozart wrote, "I played as if I were the greatest violinist in Europe." In his twenty-second year, both the composition and the performance seem singular achievements. © 2002 Robert Levin

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The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 2 Mozart Manufacturer: NY Philomusica Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000071XR2 Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. Allegro assai
2. Menuetto
3. Andante
4. Adagio
5. Allegro
6. Adagio; Allegro
7. Menuetto
8. Adagio
9. Finale
10. March
11. LargoAllegro
12. Menuetto I
13. Adagio
14. Menuetto II
15. Finale: Presto
16. March

Album Description

The Divertimento No. 4 is remarkable for its brevity and thematic neutrality. In fact, it is amazing that the work is so attractive, given the prevalence of chugging accompaniment sections in which no melody at all appears above the garrulous succession of harmonies. The boisterous extension of the final cadence gives a suitable ending to one of Mozart's most high-spirited works.

Starting in the late 1970s the authenticity of the Divertimento No. 16, long seen as the last of the set of six banquet sextets, has been sharply challenged. As the present recording of K. 289 was made before these claims began, it has been included here and allows the listener to make a personal judgment on its status.

The Divertimento No. 7 is one of the most immediately ingratiating pieces of the entire series. It is the first of the divertimenti for strings with two horns. Apart from the general role of the horns, which is to support the harmonic and rhythmic texture, their most characteristic writing in Mozart consists of the pedal tones-long notes held through changes of harmony, producing both beauty of sonority and harmonic stability. The grace of the previously heard march concludes the work with appropriate ceremony. © 2002 Robert Levin

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The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 1 Mozart Manufacturer: NY Philomusica Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000071XR1 Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Menuetto
4. Allegro
5. Tema con Variazioni
6. Menuetto
7. Allegro assai
8. Allegro
9. Adagio
10. Menuetto
11. Allegretto
12. Menuetto
13. Adagio; Allegro molto

Album Description

The first work in this series, Divertimento No. 1, was given the double title "Concerto or Divertimento" by Mozart. It exists in two different versions: the original, recorded here—written in Milan in November 1771, for strings, two clarinets and two horns—and the Salzburg transcription, made in approximately 1773— which substitutes pairs of oboes, English horns, and bassoons for the clarinets and horns.

The fourth Tafelmusik sextet, Divertimento No. 13, has just three movements. The first is an Andante theme with variations, in which Mozart's growing expertise in wind writing is evident. The other two movements are more typical—the standard minuet and trio, and a lusty rondo.

Characterized by ebulliently high spirits, Divertimento No. 2 is enormously rich in its wind writing. The minuets also contain an interesting innovation: rather than a literal repeat of the minuets themselves after the end of the succession of minuet-trio alternations, Mozart writes out an embellished variation, with fuller orchestration. © 2002 Robert Levin

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